name.space revisited

I went back. Now, Peacenet, igc.apc.org is a life.free.zone and I addedit as a new project to the black.hole (they are pacifists, aren't they? so they should not kill me?!). I don't have my IP number so I usedtheirs. Then I also checked some of the other links. There is even amontenegro.free.zone (www.montenegro.com in standard life): Montenegrois the sixth of former Yugoslav republics, the only one that did notdeclare independence - it is a tiny state with a lot of mountains and ithas only like a million people, but it was never ruled by Turks orAustrians and it has the most beautiful nature (a combination of sandybeaches, high mountains, rain forests and the world's second largestcanyon). How did they already discover the name.space? Unbelievable,those Balkan people.

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I read what that Suisse guy wrote and I believe that Internic willeventually get along with introducing new TLD names, i.e. opening thisfully. They are probably scared to death by an anarchy of having awhatever word for a TLD (which then can't be neatly shelved andstandardized in their databases). I bet they will have everythingregistered in their databases with some standard ID form, but it is notgoing to be visible in the actual addresses. Anyway, the name.spacesystem is such an obvious advantage, that it can't really be stopped. Ialready talked to my friend who had troubles of changing his businessname because somebody else had a web page registered with that name.[...]

Eventually, this is a lot like phone numbers: Americans kept a coolcountry code "1" for themselves while all other countries were forced totake shitty multiple digits codes (like Croatia is 385). [...]

The worse thing for Internic people is that name.space beats them withthe price: name.space offers any name for half the price. Which meansthat they would not only have to get along with it but also to slashtheir prices. They may not like that part, but well, this iscapitalism, isn't it? If you play their game better than them, they gobelly up, or they should move to China and ask Deng to work for him.

Actually the concept that any word can be used as a TLD is not that new:it came up to people's minds somewhere at the beginning of Cenozoic whenhumans started to live of cultivating the land instead of hunting andgathering. In larger settlements it suddenly became useful that eachfamily has its own name instead of that all members of the tribe shareone common tribal last name as a TLD. That name.space became evidentlynecessary is a clear sign of maturity of the Net. American natives forexample had a different name.space idea keeping very colorful firstnames (where TLDs were still the tribe names), which is a cool virtualhosting idea, but it will make a mess of a phone directory and it willpresent a hell to a western style inheritance lawyer.

Now our last names can be just any word, and you can even legally changeyour last name to for example River or Three. If we are all eventuallyonce to have our own URLs, i.e. cyberpersonas, it would be the mostlogical that the same legal principles that apply to ourfirst/middle/last names in real life, apply also to our virtualpresence. And in the case of corporate entities, I believe that thiscountry had enough books regulating corporate and trademark laws toprevent somebody misappropriating some other corporation's name. Icouldn't imagine a reason why would Bill Gates prefer www.microsoft.comto just simple Microsoft. Hmm, there lies a devil. I hope you had yourname.space patented before the evil Bill steals it under your feet andsells it as a new Microsoft brand.